Here’s what I wanted to accomplish tonight:
- Submit a form
- Process the form data
- Display the results in a MediaboxAdvanced window
Getting the script to which the form submits to open in the box was a breeze; it was getting the post data from the form to the script, processing it, and then displaying the results in the box that had me stumped. I came up with a way to get the page to work the way I needed it to, but I’m not entirely happy with the method. If anyone out there has a better idea, please leave a comment!
The HTML
As you can see, it consists simply of my form, and a hidden div.
<!--all the usual stuff goes first --
and then be sure to include Mootools core and MediaboxAdvanced scripts
and the Mediaboxadvanced css-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/mootools-1.2.1-core-yc.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/mediaboxadv.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/mediaboxadv.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<form action="/demos/mediaboxadv/submit.php" method="post" name="myform" id="myform">
<dl>
<dt>Enter your name:</dt>
<dd><input type="text" value="" name="name" id="name" /></dd>
<dt></dt>
<dd><input type="submit" /></dd>
</dl>
</form>
<div id="mb_inline" style="display:none;"></div>
</body>
The Javascript
<script type="text/javascript">
window.addEvent('domready',function() {
$('myform').addEvent( 'submit', function(event){
// Stop the submission of the form by the normal channels
event.stop();
// Submit the form using AJAX
var myHTMLRequest = new Request.HTML(
{
url:'/demos/mediaboxadv/submit.php',
// When the form submission is complete...
onComplete:function(response) {
// Clear anything out of the mb_inline div
$('mb_inline').getChildren().destroy();
// Dump the response into the div
$('mb_inline').adopt(response);
// And open the div in the MediaBox
Mediabox.open('#mb_inline','Results of Submitted Form','300 200');
}
}).post($('myform'));
});
});
</script>
That’s it. It seems to work. As noted above, please comment below if you know a better method of accomplishing the same thing.
